The Big Wedding (2013)

The Big Wedding Synopsis

With an all-star cast led by Robert DeNiro, Katherine Heigl, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, with Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams, The Big Wedding is an uproarious romantic comedy about a charmingly modern family trying to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco. To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Keaton) are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process. Screenplay by Justin Zackham. Directed by Justin Zackham.

With TV’s fall season just over the horizon, there are a ton of big TV dramas and comedies available on DVD this week. Additionally, fans can purchase Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen, the explosive assault on the White House movie starring Morgan Freeman and Gerard Butler.

Michael Bay scored one of the worst openings for one of his movies this weekend, but you won't hear him complaining too much. Turns out this was also one of his cheaper movies (one of only a few with a price tag less than $100 million). The $20 million debut was a comparably decent start against its non-special-effects-laden $26 million reported budget, and was enough to nab number on a slow weekend.

Michael Bay's Pain & Gain cost a hell of a lot less than any other movie he's made, which means that this opening weekend comes with much lower stakes. So while a $7 million Friday take-- including $750,000 from Thursday midnight shows-- would spell disaster for a Transformers movie, it seems to be positioning Pain & Gain for a pretty solid debut

Only two movies on the docket this week, but still a ton of stuff to talk about. It’s always interesting when Michael Bay comes into town toting a bunch of explosions and muscles. And for balance we’ve got a bunch of fading actors and actresses trying out some diminishing comedic chops. The Tomatometer losses are the Rotten Watch's gain

Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate Films merged as one company this year and now even their release date announcements and changes are coming together as well. Today the joint studios announced when we will see Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone team up again and that it will be a little while longer until we see both The Big Wedding and Now You See Me.

The Big Wedding centers on the explosive family dynamics brought about by the wedding of Barnes' groom to marry Seyfried's wide-eyed bride. See, his biological mother is a deeply religious Columbian Catholic. And with her traveling in for the ceremony, he feels he needs to hide the fact that his adoptive parents (De Niro and Keaton) got divorced ages ago.

When you think about it, it's quite obvious why Hollywood likes making wedding movies. What other sub-genre allows for a romance, crazy families, jealousy, male debauchery, sex, pretty locations and high tension all in the same film?We've seen what seems like millions of wedding movies in the last century and we'll see millions more in the future.